N.C. State Researchers Develop Faster Internet Protocol; 6,000 Times Faster Than DSL

[NFS4]

http://www.nbc17.com/news/2943796/detail.html

 

[Lager]

You mean discovered cable?

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: Lager
You mean discovered cable?

hehehe

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Lager
You mean discovered cable?

BUAHAHA

 

[Gunbuster]

but you need to have a higher optical connection all the way to the home to have this type (of BIC) network capability

So how does it compare to an OC whatever running on the same line?

 

[ndee]

Why is that news? I'm half thru the article and they mention "but you need to have a higher optical connection all the way to the home to have this type (of BIC) network capability". Wow, whatta wonder.

 

[AFB]

You all realize that this woul mean that routers and infrastucture would need to be replaced. I bet it would speed up your download by 10 Kbs.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: ndee
Why is that news? I'm half thru the article and they mention "but you need to have a higher optical connection all the way to the home to have this type (of BIC) network capability". Wow, whatta wonder.

What's wrong with talking about the future? That'd be like me in 1994 saying who gives a crap about a 3GHz processor. That's such BS. Sure, the infrastructure might not be here RIGHT NOW, but in the future we'll reap the benefits.

It's always nice to see what's on the horizon (i.e. hydrogen fuel cells in cars)

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: ndee
Why is that news? I'm half thru the article and they mention "but you need to have a higher optical connection all the way to the home to have this type (of BIC) network capability". Wow, whatta wonder.

What's wrong with talking about the future? That'd be like me in 1994 saying who gives a crap about a 3GHz processor. That's such BS. Sure, the infrastructure might not be here RIGHT NOW, but in the future we'll reap the benefits.

It's always nice to see what's on the horizon (i.e. hydrogen fuel cells in cars)

But if you had an optical connection all the way to the home it would be faster anyways.

 

[beatle]

The key here is that it is going to be costly for ISPs to upgrade. With the big bandwidth crunch, many companies don't give a crap what your connection is. What I want is the response time on downtime to decrease. I've been without my cable connect @ home since Thursday morning of last week. You can be sure that if it were cable tv, they would have had it up in less than a day.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: ndee
Why is that news? I'm half thru the article and they mention "but you need to have a higher optical connection all the way to the home to have this type (of BIC) network capability". Wow, whatta wonder.

What's wrong with talking about the future? That'd be like me in 1994 saying who gives a crap about a 3GHz processor. That's such BS. Sure, the infrastructure might not be here RIGHT NOW, but in the future we'll reap the benefits.

It's always nice to see what's on the horizon (i.e. hydrogen fuel cells in cars)

But if you had an optical connection all the way to the home it would be faster anyways.

exactly my point. If we already had optical connections, it already would be x-times faster than DSL.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: ndee
Why is that news? I'm half thru the article and they mention "but you need to have a higher optical connection all the way to the home to have this type (of BIC) network capability". Wow, whatta wonder.

What's wrong with talking about the future? That'd be like me in 1994 saying who gives a crap about a 3GHz processor. That's such BS. Sure, the infrastructure might not be here RIGHT NOW, but in the future we'll reap the benefits.

It's always nice to see what's on the horizon (i.e. hydrogen fuel cells in cars)

But if you had an optical connection all the way to the home it would be faster anyways.

exactly my point. If we already had optical connections, it already would be x-times faster than DSL.

I don't believe the bandwidth of current DSL is limited by the copper in the phone lines, so how would getting the connection through an optical wire from the same ISP be faster?

 

[MikeMike]

the limit on DSL is at the CO. for most people. luckily for me, the CO is about 2 months old they have me on. and i just got upgraded to 1.5mb dsl down

MIKE

 

[TechBoyJK]

copper might actually be one of the weak links for the dsl protocol. sure if a faster protocol is developed, it may produce faster results.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: ndee
Why is that news? I'm half thru the article and they mention "but you need to have a higher optical connection all the way to the home to have this type (of BIC) network capability". Wow, whatta wonder.

What's wrong with talking about the future? That'd be like me in 1994 saying who gives a crap about a 3GHz processor. That's such BS. Sure, the infrastructure might not be here RIGHT NOW, but in the future we'll reap the benefits.

It's always nice to see what's on the horizon (i.e. hydrogen fuel cells in cars)

But if you had an optical connection all the way to the home it would be faster anyways.

exactly my point. If we already had optical connections, it already would be x-times faster than DSL.

I don't believe the bandwidth of current DSL is limited by the copper in the phone lines, so how would getting the connection through an optical wire from the same ISP be faster?

So what is the limiting factor then?

 

[Analog]

Neat to see what's coming down the pike.

 

[phonemonkey]

Originally posted by: Gunbuster

but you need to have a higher optical connection all the way to the home to have this type (of BIC) network capability

So how does it compare to an OC whatever running on the same line?

According to the article, the new protocol runs at roughly 10 Gb/s. An oc192 (the fastest line I can think of) runs at 9.6 Gb/s. The primary target seems like it would be at ISPs, communications companies, and other large enterprise networks (my company, a grocery store has dual oc48's at our data center).

What I think is funny is that they expect people to run connections like this to their house (as someone else quoted them as saying). Most computers today (or even in the near future) would only recieve a small fraction of this speed (as they'll put more people on the same connection and use this bandwidth as the backbone to the rest of the net). I think amdfanboy would be right that the average consumer will only see a small increase in bandwidth at some time in the future.